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by seabee 15y ago
What are your specs like? I've used it on my netbook and a cheap 2006 Dell laptop (no animations) and a dual-core Atom board (animations) and everything had been smooth and quick. I wonder if the problem is driver support.
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by seabee 15y ago
But the home screen can be made symmetrical while maintaining the same distance between icons. So the question is why not do that? Also as far as the outer margins are concerned, the badge extends the right side of the icon, so having the r
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by seabee 15y ago
Steam missing EA's titles is a recent development caused by EA starting their own competitor, Origin. It remains to be seen whether Origin can gain any traction as a (currently) single publisher platform, but it is required by their new rel
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by seabee 15y ago
Are mixer taps insufficient?
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by seabee 15y ago
Don't forget that your passcode/password also forms part of the decryption key. It's not quite as bad as you make it out to be.
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by seabee 15y ago
"Non-pharmaceuticals" and "alternative medicine" are distinct but overlapping sets. In any case, to quote Tim Minchin: "Do you know what they call 'alternative medicine' that's been proven to work? Medicine." And peer-reviewed research is g
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by seabee 15y ago
> It is a matter of media feeding made-up facts since current conflict started Therefore the past 30 years mean nothing? His crimes did not begin and end with the NATO operation. He was notorious for decades, in particular when certain
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by seabee 15y ago
Right, but pseudo-randomness is still monadic because you are mutating the state of the random number generator. That it is in IO is an implementation detail of where that generator's state lives. It's been a little while since I worked wit
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by seabee 15y ago
To a large extent this is the purpose of the House of Lords in UK parliament. The selection process for its members is not at all democratic which leaves a bad taste in many people's mouths. But the general concept of an elected body whose
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by seabee 15y ago
Nobody is suggesting that. In any case it's a false comparison, since anybody has the ability to fully exercise their freedom of speech. To exercise your open-source freedoms fully require skills, time, and/or money (to pay others to do it
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by seabee 15y ago
It's not in a state I would like to make public yet. Sufficient to get my degree, but the quality is poor due to personal circumstances. However I sent you a link via your contact form.
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by seabee 15y ago
The unsaid thing about freedoms is you cannot exercise them unless you have the means to do so. If you don't have that, the only value freedoms afford you is aspirational. Given that the potential to do something is worth a whole lot less t
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by seabee 15y ago
I wrote my thesis on an immutable data store as a means to beat CAP. I didn't get quite as far as your other observations though, as mine was in the context of continuation web frameworks. Very nice write-up however.
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by seabee 15y ago
It's PARC so likely a smalltalk environment is one of the alternatives.
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by seabee 15y ago
I find the author's implication that users select menu text (as opposed to any part of the entire row) interesting. I always move my mouse until the desired item received highlight rather than aiming for text, so the Ubuntu power menu was n
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by seabee 15y ago
China is starting from a different point to much of the West. What remains to be seen is whether their style of government will peak or surpass Western ones as it approaches the same quality of life, and it will be very informative whicheve
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by seabee 15y ago
Cute, except that password1 has to be unique. Hope you like confusing some of your users. You'd be better off getting rid of the login altogether and using a GUID. People still share computers, you know.
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by seabee 15y ago
Specifically, CPS was intended as a mechanical program transformation to remove the stack, not a style for programmers to actually write their programs in.
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by seabee 15y ago
Since when was linking an action with its consequence 'deciding that I shouldn't be doing something' or 'authoritarian and creepy'? Patient: "It hurts when I do this!" Doctor: "Then don't do that." You can still do it, just don't act surp
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by seabee 15y ago
That's rather misleading - if WM_SETTEXT is a 'notification' than so is every function call in your program. There's no guarantee it will work, either, but neither is there a guarantee that 'myWin' will have a property 'setText' in JS or Py
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by seabee 15y ago
Using message queue semantics to implement Java-style OOP is the kind of thing that would put Alan Kay into a rage. The failing of the Windows message system is not distinguishing between the 'command' messages that you are allowed to send
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by seabee 15y ago
The carriers can still locate you without GPS using triangulation. But that kind of data requires a court order to access, so not a serious issue. Anecdotally there are lots of people who care about a specific privacy issue based on a perso
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by seabee 15y ago
"What do you have to hide" is the most naive and/or disingenuous rebuttal ever seen in a privacy discussion. "What do you have to fear" is a more honest one. As it turns out, there are plenty of malicious actors you have to fear. Private in
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by seabee 15y ago
In my primary school we had a basic computing class. We'd use different programs to familiarise ourselves with both the hardware and software. It would arise in other classes too, where it made sense - I remember typing my short story up in
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by seabee 15y ago
People do die for it[0] [1]. Not to sound too flippant but the lengths they go to just to steal some wire is genuinely shocking. Do they not appreciate the dangers? [0] http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1090905_m... [1]
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by seabee 15y ago
That will happen if the role of editor is replaced rather than (as Yahoo is doing) augmented. I don't think you should fear a decline in editorial quality as much as you should fear the devaluation of news. If people want quality they must
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by seabee 15y ago
I actually set up another Google profile using an email account managed by Apps, and this works fine for me. But it's not the solution I want since you have to switch users whenever you want to use Plus.
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by seabee 15y ago
Where do you think he'd get the schematics from? I can't imagine they would ever leave the secure vault - declassification doesn't mean releasing to the public domain.
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by seabee 15y ago
It's 2011. I'm not a perfect typer, when I type 'chocolate pudding recpe' Google should be smart enough to figure out I meant recipe. Or even if I don't know how to spell a word ('accomodation'). Oh, apparently it's not allowed to do this b
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by seabee 15y ago
If you don't re-address each element, how do you map the value at index 1 to index 0? One way is to leave the indexes intact and keep an offset around, so you may map the nth logical index to the nth physical one. (Add 1 on a shift, subtrac

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